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Re:Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you? by AlchemistCamp on Saturday July 20, 2019 @01:24AM (#20484331)
YouTube is actually the one major social media network that has a more positive than negative psychological effect:

https://www.psychalive.org/worst-mental-health-instagram-fac...

Re:Ask HN: What have the past 12 months taught you? by muzani on Monday July 22, 2019 @09:12AM (#20497649)
It depends a lot on the person. I don't get distracted at all by anything on YouTube; it's about as entertaining as a library to me. Same with something like TvTropes. My distraction channels are forums like Reddit and FB.

Different people have different closed loops.